Aaron West wrote:
> Richard Danter wrote:
>> 2008/6/6 Dr Adam J Trickett <adam.trickett@???>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 at 12:50:16PM +0100, Richard Danter wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a .deb file (it's the PUEL version of VirtualBox) that I want
>>>> to install on a headless server. dpkg -i reports lots of missing
>>>> dependencies and of course dpkg can't go and resolve them from the
>>>> usual repositories. Aptitude can get things from repositories but not
>>>> install a local .deb file (or am I missing something?).
>>>>
>>>> So what is the best way to install a local deb and resolve all the
>>>> dependencies? Is there no command line tool to do both local and
>>>> repository installation?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> What is wrong with the VirtualBox-OSE edition in stock Debian (Lenny and
>>> later) or Ubuntu? I only ask as using vendor supplied debs is always
>>> best if you can. If you only need to run VirtualBox headless, i.e.
>>> without X then that's easy to arrange if you need.
>>>
>>
>> I just found that the performance was not too good (I did a test on
>> another system) and using rdesktop to the PUEL version was much
>> better. The other system already had all the dependencies installed so
>> I am hitting this issue only on the headless server (Ubuntu 8.04
>> Server).
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
> Hopefully this will help you do it information was found here:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html
>
> Aaron West
>
>
> 2.2 How to use APT locally
>
> Sometimes you have lots of packages .deb that you would like to use
> APT to install so that the dependencies would be automatically solved.
>
> To do that create a directory and put the .debs you want to index in
> it . For example:
>
> # mkdir /root/debs
>
>
> You may modify the definitions set on the package's control file
> directly for your repository using an override file. Inside this file
> you may want to define some options to override the ones that come
> with the package. It looks like follows:
>
> package priority section
>
>
> package is the name of the package, priority is low, medium or high
> and section is the section to which it belongs. The file name does not
> matter, you'll have to pass it as an argument for |dpkg-scanpackages|
> later. If you do not want to write an override file, just use
> |/dev/null|. when calling |dpkg-scanpackages|.
>
> Still in the /root directory do:
>
> # dpkg-scanpackages debs file | gzip > debs/Packages.gz
>
>
> In the above line, file is the override file, the command generates a
> file |Packages.gz| that contains various information about the
> packages, which are used by APT. To use the packages, finally, add:
>
> deb file:/root debs/
>
>
> After that just use the APT commands as usual. You may also generate a
> sources repository. To do that use the same procedure, but remember
> that you need to have the files .orig.tar.gz, .dsc and .diff.gz in the
> directory and you have to use Sources.gz instead of Packages.gz. The
> program used is also different. It is |dpkg-scansources|. The command
> line will look like this:
>
> # dpkg-scansources debs | gzip > debs/Sources.gz
>
>
> Notice that |dpkg-scansources| doesn't need an override file. The
> sources.list's line is:
>
> deb-src file:/root debs/
>
>
> --
> Aaron West
>
> Dr. Zachary Smith: Sarcasm is the recourse of the weak mind.
>
Sorry for replying to myself but having a rethink that seems mighty
complex to install one darn deb file however i'm 90% sure if you install
the OSE package that would indeed put the dependencies in place then
remove it and install the PUEL package.
--
Aaron West
Dr. Zachary Smith: Sarcasm is the recourse of the weak mind.
